On the Road

         We see Baker walking slowly on the balcony of his hotel room, warming up on his trumpet, then packing it up and checking out how he looks before he goes to the gig. We cut to old TV footage of a young Baker in San Remo in 1956 and then back to him, now in close-up. The sense of how lonely life can be on the road is palpable.

The Enduring Enigma of Chet Baker
Steve Provizer
The Arts Fuse
2025

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                https://artsfuse.org/320300/jazz-commentary-the-enduring-enigma-of-chet-baker/

Dark Reflections #46

Big Heat

Blood Simple

Raging Bull

Bound

Death of a Cyclist

Carancho

Angel Heart

Crime of Passion

Last Seduction

While the City Sleeps

Vertigo

Touch of Evil

Paris, Texas

Peeping Tom

Decoy

Mr Klein

Lady from Shanghai

Night Moves

Port of Call

Onto a Path

         The trajectory or downward spiral starts out as happiness, then temptation, then hubris, and finally, damnation. And all because of an irresistible vixen who cursed our poor protagonist onto a path of self-destruction. Almost like they turned the neon lights onto the Garden of Eden.

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Wrong Clue

For many people this is probably their favorite soundtrack. I'm one of those people.

Get the World

Exist in Real Life

           Seems that Hitchcock is simply saying that utopia does not exist in real life. We may be able to imagine some kind of perfect situation for ourselves, but it can never be achieved in reality. There will always be something to throw off the equilibrium of things. In a sense we all suffer from vertigo, and as Midge says to Johnny ''there's no losing it''.

Mikey Gee
Essay on Vertigo
Sept 2011

Play My Horn

But if i didn't have to make money, i would still play my horn.

Sonny Rollins

More Poster Noir

Aleksander Szczepaniak

For Escape

         Hiding places there are inumerable, escape is only one, but possibilities for escape, again, are as many as hiding places.

Franz Kafka

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Mutz Greenbaum

Night and the City

So Evil My Love

Odette

Thunder Rock

Big Lonely City #243